Quanquan Gu Responds to Terence Tao's Doubt: AI Brute-Forcing Cancer Therapies Is Worth It
QuanquanGu · x · 2026-09-13
UCLA professor Quanquan Gu engaged in a discussion with netizens about the limits of AI capabilities. Citing Terence Tao's view, the other party questioned: even with enough AI agents and compute to brute-force well-defined problems or integrate vast research into large pipelines, "then what?" Gu responded that if AI agents, compute, and robots could truly brute-force their way to new cancer therapies, cures for rare diseases, or drugs that save millions of lives, it would be a huge leap forward for humanity.
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